Louise T. Graves

July 01, 2001|Compiled by MANDY MALONE Daily Press

HAMPTON — Louise Tennis Graves, 82, died Friday, June 29, 2001. Born Jan. 20, 1919, the daughter of Clara Goodrich and Allen Lee Tennis Sr., she was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Allen Lee Tennis Jr.

Mrs. Graves is survived by her husband of 60 years, Stanley Hope Graves of Hampton; daughter, Page Graves Nestor and her husband, Robert Owen Nestor, of Virginia Beach; daughter, Rhonda Louise Graves and Ellen Coleman of Atlanta; two granddaughters, Jenna Lynne Brown of Hampton and Kathryn Leigh Brown of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and one grandson, Michael Channing Brown of Virginia Beach.

A lifelong Peninsula resident Mrs. Graves was a graduate of Hampton High School and Riverside Hospital School of Nursing. She was past president of the Wythe Women's Club and was a member of the Past President's Club in Tidewater District of VFWC. She was a member of the Hampton Democratic Women's Club, the Hampton Lioness Club and Memorial Baptist Church.

A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, July 2, at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home with interment to follow in Parklawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

The family requests that memorial donations be sent to Memorial Baptist Church, 317 Lee St., Hampton 23669.